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Timeline Of The Near Future

Subjects : trivia, history
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1. Mercury occults Neptune.






2. 99942 Apophis has a 1 in 250000 chance of hitting Earth on April 19.






3. Triple conjunction Mars






4. Winter Olympics held in Sochi - Russia. 2014 FIFA World Cup held in Brazil. Expected time of completion for the World Trade Center site. The fifth report of the UN'sInternational Panel on Climate Change to be given.






5. Grand Trine of Uranus - Neptune - and Pluto. This last occurred in 1769 and 1770.






6. At 16-08 UTC on July 29 - Mercury will occult Mars.






7. At 16-08 UTC on July 29 - Mercury will occult Mars.






8. Transit of Venus.






9. On March 4 at 10-52 UTC - Venus will occult Uranus.






10. Brood X - the largest brood of North American seventeen-year cicadas - will emerge.






11. At 15-28 UTC - on September 14 - Venus will eclipse Jupiter.






12. The One country - two systems model between China and Macau will expire.






13. The Green Wall of China is expected to be completed.






14. Triple conjunction of Mars and Saturn.






15. Solar eclipse of 7 min 29 s (very close to the theoretical maximum) - saros 139 - 'crowing' this serie. This is predicted to be the longest eclipse during the current 10000 year period - from 4000 BC to AD 6000 (eclipse predictions by Fred Espenak -






16. Halley's Comet returns to the inner Solar System






17. Triple conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn.






18. Brood X - the largest brood of North American seventeen-year cicadas - will emerge.






19. Transit of Venus on June 11.






20. First expected manned mission to Mars by NASA.






21. The Chernobyl exclusion zone becomes habitable.






22. The Message From Earth will reach Gliese 581.






23. 'First Plutonian anniversary' of the dwarf planet's discovery - given that Pluto's orbit is just under 248 Earth years.






24. The planetoid 90377 Sedna reaches perihelion.






25. Construction of Sagrada Familia to be completed.






26. Copyright on the earliest Mickey Mouse cartoons expires.






27. Lease held by the Pitjantjatjara people on Uluru to Australian government set to expire.






28. On March 4 at 10-52 UTC - Venus will occult Uranus.






29. On August 1 - Mercury occults Regulus (last occultation of Regulus by Mercury was on August 13 - 364 BC).






30. At 15-28 UTC - on September 14 - Venus will eclipse Jupiter.






31. Last year which can be represented using the File Allocation Table date format.






32. 2018 FIFA World Cup to be held in Russia. 2018 Winter Olympics to be held in Pyeongchang - South Korea.






33. Transit of Mercury and an occultation of Jupiter by Venus.






34. March 17






35. Information on the Falklands War declassified.






36. Solar eclipse of 7 min 29 s (very close to the theoretical maximum) - saros 139 - 'crowing' this serie. This is predicted to be the longest eclipse during the current 10000 year period - from 4000 BC to AD 6000 (eclipse predictions by Fred Espenak -






37. The maximum calendar year limit within the Microsoft Windows XP - Windows Vista and Windows 7 operating systems.






38. With an estimated probability of 0.07% - Apollo asteroid 1999 RQ36 could hit the Earth.






39. August will be the first time Pluto reaches aphelion since its discovery.






40. Solar eclipse of 7 min 26 s - saros 139.






41. Triple conjunction Mars






42. The M1 Abrams will be retired from service.






43. Year 2038 problem - similar to the Year 2000 problem may occur on this date.






44. Transit of Venus on June 11.






45. Return of Halley's Comet.






46. The 17th Pan-American Games to be held in Toronto. Spacecrafts New Horizons and Dawn to arrive at the dwarf planets Pluto and Ceres - respectively. Alignment of Earth - Venus and Jupiter. Rugby World Cup held in England and Wales. 2015 Cricket World






47. Lease held by the Pitjantjatjara people on Uluru to Australian government set to expire.






48. The maximum calendar year limit within the Microsoft Windows XP - Windows Vista and Windows 7 operating systems.






49. Two solar eclipses will occur in this year.






50. Triple conjunction of Mars and Saturn.